If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.